Viewpoint: Quality matters!

A short review of the official Autodesk user guide to the operation and uses of AutoCAD 2014 and AutoCAD LT 2014, written by experienced Autodesk technical author, Scott Onstott.

Expedition Engineering director Julia Ratcliffe has travelled the globe creating elegant and practical structures in places and situations as diverse as New York and post tsunami Thailand. Her latest challenge is leading the team designing the Institution’s new headquarters building. Jackie Whitelaw went to meet her in the first of a new series of profiles.

Original respondents to Grenville Phillips’ March 2013 article ‘Why change Haiti’s cultural building aspirations?’, Tom McGregor and Michael Summers, summarise the subsequent discussions that took place and put forward their own views on the reinforced/confined masonry debate.